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Malaria ︱ 58 patients need to be admitted to the isolation ward first.

2022-08-07T10:13:22.591Z


Hong Kong continues to increase imported malaria cases. The Centre for Health Protection announced today (7th) that as of yesterday afternoon, a total of 75 malaria cases had been recorded.


Hong Kong continues to increase imported malaria cases. The Centre for Health Protection announced today (7th) that a total of 75 malaria cases have been recorded as of yesterday afternoon. Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection, pointed out that in addition to Guinea, 10 people were imported from other African regions. Arrivals, including Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda, Congo and the African Republic, etc.


Hospital Authority Chief Administrative Manager (Quality and Standards) Lau Ka Hian pointed out that there are currently a total of 58 malaria patients receiving treatment in public hospitals. One critical and one critical patient is admitted to the intensive care unit, and another patient is suffering from both new coronary pneumonia and malaria.

He said that because malaria patients are overseas arrivals, they were originally required to undergo quarantine in hotels. Therefore, they will be arranged to stay in an isolation ward for observation during their stay in the hospital. If the quarantine period expires, they can be arranged to be transferred to a protection ward.

In response to the sharp increase in malaria cases, the HA has urgently purchased medicines, emphasizing that there is sufficient supply.


Malaria is common in regions with warm climates such as Africa, Southeast Asia and South America, and is transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito.

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Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection, said that as of 2:00 p.m. yesterday, a total of 75 malaria cases have been reported, and two to three suspected cases with symptoms have been added to the hospital.

She continued that the authorities will implement special arrangements at the airport, including asking people arriving from Guinea who are known to have travelled with malaria cases to ask them if they have symptoms. Blood is drawn, hoping to find out the infected person as soon as possible.

Zhang Zhujun also mentioned that Africans arriving in Hong Kong are required to stay in quarantine hotels. For the convenience of management, if they are returning to Hong Kong in "batch" form, they have been arranged to stay at the Hong Kong Cosmo Hotel in Wanchai, but she mentioned that , Due to the limited location of the hotel, the authorities will review whether it is necessary to find another hotel.

According to the press release of the Department of Health this morning, the 75 malaria patients, aged between 25 and 57, arrived in Hong Kong between July 1 and August 5. Two male patients, aged 52 and 53, died. .

65 people arrived in Hong Kong from Guinea, and the remaining 10 people arrived in Hong Kong from other African regions. Zhang Zhujun added that the regions involved include Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda, Congo and the African Republic.

Hospital Authority Chief Administrative Manager (Quality and Standards) Lau Ka Hsien pointed out that there are currently 58 malaria patients hospitalized in public hospitals, including 56 males and 2 females, one in critical condition, two in serious condition, and 55 in stable condition, one in each of them Critical and critical patients are being hospitalized in the intensive care unit, and the team will continue to monitor the situation and provide appropriate treatment.

The HA will cooperate with the Department of Health, including dispatching medical staff to provide assistance at the airport, to ask Guinean arrivals to Hong Kong if they have symptoms and whether they need to be admitted to hospital. The Department of Health will fully cooperate with blood tests to arrange admission.

He said that patients with malaria will be placed in isolation wards during their stay in the hospital.

He emphasized that this move is not a concern of human-to-human transmission of malaria. If there are no mosquitoes or adequate mosquito control measures, the risk of transmission is not high.

He explained that because malaria patients are foreign arrivals, they should have been quarantined in hotels for seven days for monitoring. Therefore, they also need to be quarantined during their stay in the hospital. If the quarantine period expires, they can be transferred to the protection ward. The hospital has also increased the number of mosquito infections. Treatment, including doing a good job of mosquito control.

The number of malaria patients currently hospitalized is small. If more isolation facilities are needed, stable patients may be transferred to second-line wards for treatment.

He pointed out that some patients were infected with new coronary pneumonia and malaria at the same time, but the actual number was not known yet.

In terms of medicines, Liu said that the number of malaria cases has increased sharply, the situation is serious, and the number of pathogenic parasites on the patient's body is high when he is admitted to the hospital, so he has urgently purchased sufficient medicines from the Mainland and other countries, and there is sufficient supply to cope with the rising number of malaria cases.

Experts will also decide the number of oral and intravenous drugs to purchase depending on the situation.

WHO analysis of malaria case distribution in Guinea.

▼On July 25, those returning to Hong Kong at the airport are waiting to take a special bus to the quarantine hotel▼


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